Adjustable pool rail and pocket.



J. E LE COUR.

ADJUSTABLE POOL RAIL AND POCKET.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 19!]- Patented Feb. 191s.

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J. E. LE COUR.

ADJUSTABLE POOLRAILAND POCKEL .APPLICATION FILED JULY 24, 1911.

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ADJUSTABLE PDOL BAIL AND POCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

lPatented Feb. a, rat.

Application filed July 24, 1917. Serial No. 182,546.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. Ln Coon, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Winthrop, in the county of Middlesex, in the State ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inAdjustable Pool Rails and Pockets, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide simple and adequate meanswhereby ordinary plain or round tables may be converted into pool tableswithout altering or changing the construction of the said tables.

This device is designed to produce a substantial playing table whichwill be as effective as those now used for billiard and pool playing andat the same time it can be produced at a very low cost.

For the purpose of clearly explaining my improvement I have provided theannexed drawing, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a rectangularshaped table having my described device embodied thereon, and Fig. 3 isa similar View of the said improvement adapted to an oval table. Fig. 2is an elevation of one of the corner pockets and a section of the rail,the said pocket having the customary netting omitted. Fig. 4 is asectional view of the rails, taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2. Figs. 5and 6 are, respectively, plan and end views of one of the detachedpockets and Fig. 7 shows the means whereby the several rails are lockedor fastened to the pockets. Fig. 8 is an elevation of a preferred styleof clamp by means of which the device is held in its operative position,with respect to the table.

Referring now to the drawings, the numeral 10 denotes a plain table and11 a round table having secured thereto, by means of clamps 12, myherein described attachment.

This said attachment consists of suitably constructed corner pockets 13and center pockets 14 which are removably secured to extension rails 15.For the purpose of allowing adjustment I have constructed the rails soas to allow one portion to slide with in the other, as at 16. Theseveral pockets are held in their respective positions, with respect tothe rails, by means preferably, as disclosed at 17.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I have shown a preferred form of pocket having theusual net 18 secured thereto by any suitable means and, in order toovercome the possibility of the proecting ends of the table interferingwith the passage of the balls into the said pockets, I have lengthenedthe arm portions of said pocket as will be seen by reference to Fig. 1of the drawings.

The rails 15 are constructed in telescoping parts 15 and 15 and canthereby be adjusted to fit any size or shape of table as heretoforementioned. Therefore it will be readily seen that my described devicecan convert any ordinary table into a pool or billiard table by merelystretching a cloth upon the surface of said table and mounting my saiddevice thereon.

Inasmuch as the rails are not faced with rubber, and in order to obtainthe requisite rebound of the balls, I have found it desirable tosubstitute rubber balls in place of the ivory ones now, in common. use,and for the purpose of restraining the rubber balls from jumping off thetable I have shaped the rails 15 in a concave manner, as at 15.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and wish to secure byLetters Patent 1. In combination with a table, a plurality of sidepockets, a plurality of cor ner pockets, means for connecting saidpockets, consisting of rails constructed to be telescoped within eachother, and means for clzgmping the rails and pockets to the said ta le.

2. In combination, with a cloth-covered table, a plurality ofindependently constructed pockets, a plurality of rails comprising aplurality of sections designed to telescope within each other, means forfastening the pockets to said rails and means for clamping the saidrails and pockets in their operative positions with respect to the saidcloth covered table.

3. In combination with a table, a raised border consisting of aplurality of extensible sections, and pockets located at predeterminedpositions in said border, and means for clamping said border to thetable.

Worden or this patent man be obtained for ave cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner er Patents, Washington, In. G.

